Improved machine for conveying warp-beams from one machine to another



NITE STATES PATENT Fries..

BENJAMIN SANDERS, OF NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, ASSIGNOR TO ALBERT H. SA'UNDERS AND GEORGE DRAPER.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR CONVEYING WARP-BEAMS FROM ONE MACHINE TO ANOTIIER, 0., IN

FACTORIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent- No; 435811, dated August 1G, 1864.

.'o @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN SAUNDERs, of Nashua, in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, have made a new and useful invention for transporting warpvbeams from place to place or from one machine to another in an apartment of a factory; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully describedin the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top View, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, ofthe invention or machine.

Heretofore it has been customary to effect the transportation of warp-beams from the warper77 to the dresser/7 or from the latter to the drawin g-fl ame or elsewherein the apartment of a factory, by manual labor, in which case the beam (which, when full of warps, weighs generally from two hundied to three hundred pounds) has been raised by its journals by one man at each of them, and in this condition it has been removed from one situa tion to another. With my machine the re lnoval of tl e beam from a warper or dresser, and its transportation therefrom to another machine, as well as its adjustment to the requisite elevation for being applied to such machine, can be effected by one person, a small boy, for instance, being sufiicient to accomplish these results. In this way my invention is calculated to produce not only a great economy of labor, but a large saving of expensein a mill.

1n the drawings, A denotes a gallowsframe,7 having four or any other suitable num- `per of casters, a a a a, for supporting it on a iioor and for enabling it to be readily wheeled or moved from one place to another thereon.

Across the frame A there is arranged a horizontal shaft, B, having its journals supported in suitable boxes, bb. On one end of the shaft a gear, o, is fastened. The said gear engages with a pinion, d, fixed on a secondary shaft, c, which carries a cranked wheel, j', and is supported by a bracket, g, which extends from the gallows frame. Furthermore, there are two windlass-pulleys, h z', applied to the shaft B, one of them-viz., -bein'g xed to the shaft concentrically. The other pulley is ap'- plied to the shaft by what is termed a featherconnection,77 in order that the pulley may not only revolve with and be revolved by the shaft, but be capable of being easily slid longitudinally on the shaft. The feather connection is shown at'k, its nature being well known to mechanicians.

Each of the windlass-pulleys has one of two belts ZZ affixed to it and around it and extended from it upward over and partially around one of two pulleys or wheels, m n, which are supported in brackets o p, applied to the top of the gallows frame. One of these brackets is stationary a-nd the other is adjustable on the frame. The adjustable bracket o is provided with 'a clamp-screw a-nd nut as shown at q, such screw being caused to pass through a long slot, i", arranged longitudinally and in other respects in the cap-bar s of the gallowsframe, in manner as represented in Fig. 1. The two free extremities of the two belts l l should be provided with loops t t or other suitable devices for receiving and supporting tlie two ,journals u u of a warp-beam, c, when applied to them.

Fig. 4 denotes a transverse section, and Fig. 5 a longitudinal section, of one of these loops, Whose outer ends I prefer to have closed and their inner ends open, as shown iu Fig. 5.

Besides the windlass-pulleys there is xed on the shaft B a ratchet, lv. (See Fig. l and also Fig. 6, the latter being` a transverse and vertical section of the machine, it being taken through the ratchet.) A retaining-pawl, zo, forced up to the periphery of the ratchet by a spring, a', is applied to the gallows-frame, and is connected to a treadle, y, by means of a rod, e, the whole being arranged as shown in Figs. 2 and 6.

By takin g hold of the handle u. ot' the cranked wheel f and revolving the said wheel in the direction denoted by the arrow marked thereon, the shaft B will be put in revolution, so as to cause the windlass pulleys to wind up the two belts, the retaining-pawl, while in engagement with the ratchet, serving to prevent the rotation of the shaftB in an opposite direction.

In using the machine, a person having brought it into a proper position, near a warper, for instance, is to apply the loops of the belts to the journals of the warp-beam to be cmse the Warp-beam to be raised out of its bearings. The machine supporting the Warpbeam may next be pushed or drawn alon g on t-he iioor and into a convenient position for depositing the Warp-beam in the place cr machine intended to receive it. In case it may be necessary to adjust the beam to any different or required altitude, this Vmay be effected by the mechanism applied to'the galloWs-frame', the depositing of the beam in the machine or place for its reception being a matter readily accomplished.

I claim as my invention- The said machine, constructed substantially in manner and so as to operate as and for the purpose specified.

BENJN. SAUNDERS.

Witnesses: J. l?. HUTcHINsoN, GEO. F. KING. 

